Two archives, queried live.
Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 20 shown for “Jacob Burying Idols Under an Oak Tree from The Story of Jacob series” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-10 16:06 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Jacob Burying Idols Under an Oak Tree from The Story of Jacob series
Artist not stated in the record · 1550–75

Laban reproves Jacob for leaving secretely
Gerard Jean Baptiste Scotin, the Younger, 1698–after 1744 · 1725–45

Wheat Fields
Jacob van Ruisdael · ca. 1670

Scrollwork Escutcheon with Representation of Saint Mark the Evangelist
Jacob Floris the Elder, Flemish, 1524 - 1581 · ca. 1565

Jacob Willemsz van Veen (1456–1535), the Artist's Father
Maarten van Heemskerck · 1532

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written By Herself
Artist not stated in the record · 1861

The Harvesters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565

Scrollwork Escutcheon with Representation of Winter
Jacob Floris the Elder, Flemish, 1524 - 1581 · ca. 1565

Christ Is Born as Man's Redeemer (Episode from the Story of the Redemption of Man)
Artist not stated in the record · 1500–1520

Jacob Haehnlen's Lithographic and Steam Power Letter Press Printing Rooms
Haehnlen, Jacob · 1866

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)
Hans Memling · ca. 1470

Study of "Courage" for Memorial Window to Jacob Dolson Cox, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
Kenyon Cox, American, 1856–1919 · 1901

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)
Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32

Putti playing before a herm
Jacob de Wit, 1695 – 1754 · 1750–1752

The Forest in Winter at Sunset
Théodore Rousseau · ca. 1846–67

Bond for the hire of the enslaved man Jacob by Edward Rouzee
Artist not stated in the record · October 28, 1808

Christ Carrying the Cross, with the Crucifixion; The Resurrection, with the Pilgrims of Emmaus
Gerard David · ca. 1510

Archangel Gabriel; The Virgin Annunciate
Gerard David · ca. 1510

Cupboard (Beeldenkast)
Artist not stated in the record · 1622

The Crucifixion
Master of the Berswordt Altar · ca. 1400
Where these records came from.
Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.
- The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field:
isPublicDomain. 222 matched · 24 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 3166042 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-10 16:06 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.
Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.
An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.